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60/ so then an autist shows up and actually LISTENS to the claim...and the autist says "lol, raising hogs in the suburbs is a TERRIBLE idea". but normie homesteader again doesn't hear the words, doesn't evaluate the words what he HEARS is "your tribe bad; your lifestyle bad"
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61/ so now our normie homesteader is very angry that someone is disrespecting his life choices like that [ even tho he isn't ] and starts reaching for a stick - any stick - to attack the hater. He accuses the hater of being lazy. He accuses him of not wanting to work hard.
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62/ when the autist reveals that he does work hard, and has raised big gardens, and has split firewood, those words go unheard, unevaluated ... and our normie posts pictures of MUCH MUCH SMALLER gardens and MUCH MUCH SMALLER firewood, as evidence that the autist don't farm
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63/ if the autist sells a massive 650 page book for about half the common retail price of such things, accuse him of "grift" and selling courses, even tho he doesn't sell courses and sells the books near break-even prices. ...bc none of it is about facts...
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64/ ...it's all about defending the ego against a thing that ...isn't even an attack on the ego.
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65/ new fren just DMed to ask > I recently moved on to a half-acre plot, and I want to do some small time hobby farming - vegetables and the like, maybe a couple of apple trees. Problem is that almost the entire lot is infested with mugwort, with strong and healthy rhizomes...
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66/ > ...How do I get rid of it without completely destroying my soil's ecology I've never dealt w mugwort, but I have dealt w weeds and Japanese Knotweed. For weeds, I am a recent and enthusiastic convert to 2,4-D either alone or in a commercial mix of 2,4-D, 3,6-D. ...
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67/ It is a liquid that you mix w water at like 1:50 and spray w a backpack sprayer, or a riding mower tow behind sprayer. It blocks an enzyme that broadleaf plants need to live, while doing no harm to narrowleaf (i.e. grasses).
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68/ poaster mentions "rhizomes" (i.e. a thick root that has lots of carbohydrates and can spread a plant laterally). Again, no experience w mugwort at all, but knotweed has the same, and my approach there is 1) get an injection gun [ look on ebay ] and inject ...
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69/ ...full strength (sold as "concentrate") glyphosate (i.e. roundup") into the step of the plant. This gets sucked down into the rhizome and kills it. ...then for the 1% that survives the glyphosate, use a pick and shovel to dig up the rhizomes and discard in a dumpster
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70/ very well said 100 square feet makes sense 1,000 acres makes sense 0.5 acres is the worst of all words too much to hoe, too little to drag a tractor cultivator overhttps://twitter.com/SporadicE5/status/1487131058122506251 …
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